Slowness?? What slowness? Office 2008 is just as fast on my MacBook AIR as it is on my PC (Office 2007). Mine launches in seconds, not minutes.
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Slowness?? What slowness? Office 2008 is just as fast on my MacBook AIR as it is on my PC (Office 2007). Mine launches in seconds, not minutes.
Erm, I don't actually have Office 2008 but I tried opening two Textedit documents and moved one to a different space and it does not screw you around in the way the original poster described.
Interesting, I have two machines, and I applied the same update file to both from the same downloaded .dmg file.
On my Mac Pro it says 12.0.1 (080305)
On my MacBook Pro is says 12.0.0 (071130)
I noticed when I installed on the second machine (MBP) the amount of space it said it would need was lower on the MBP than the Mac Pro, sounds weird doesn't it. I wonder if MS F***D up and screwed up the update.
How could they possible know the difference and install something different on different machines? Both are running Office 2008 ?????
Weird, I wonder if it was really updated???
I dunno. I got Office 2008 Special Media (free upgrade) and I think it's quite speedy on my SR 2.2 MB. I actually think it's got great eye-candy too, I like it better than Office 2004.
Does anyone here think I should take the plunge and switch to Entourage?
Well it's encouraging to hear it is usable for some, if not everyone on this forum.
For me I'm so much happier with Pages. Keynote is obviously a given too. Numbers may take a revision or two before it can properly challenge Excel, but for simple things, it is a joy to use too.
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I like Word 08 a lot better. It's just easier to find things, but its also a designer imposter pages rip off. I like pages better for layout things.
I am finding as I use it more there are buggy things about it, but I suppose thats normal for any new software release.
I also have no issues with performance or application launching as some other do, and I have current gen imac. I think its much faster than 04 was under rosetta. However, the new excel I think is going to be a pain. I might put excel 04 back on for macro support.
I like Word 08 a lot better. It's just easier to find things, but its also a designer imposter pages rip off. I like pages better for layout things.
I am finding as I use it more there are buggy things about it, but I suppose thats normal for any new software release.
I also have no issues with performance or application launching as some other do, and I have current gen imac. I think its much faster than 04 was under rosetta. However, the new excel I think is going to be a pain. I might put excel 04 back on for macro support.
Not quite. There is an issue with the way MS has set up their apps interaction with Spaces. The fact is that if I am in another Space and I do an app switch back to Word the Word doc will not be in the foreground. There are problems with Spaces but MS Office has issues that other apps do not have.
1) I should not have to have all other apps closed to launch them. Take note that both the Office and iWork launches were done in the same context so the time comparison is still valid.
2) Try restarting your machine and performing first launches of them.
Is Entourage worth it? Really? Please PM me if someone thinks it's worth using and why.
Yes, totally. I need to access mails from 4 exchange accounts. I can do that in Entourage(A much better option as opposed to opening 4 different OWA pages in IE or Safari.
Yeah, my alerts seem to be workiong too (at least for now-- they used to go away after a while) but it still says 12.0.0, I will keep checking to see if I loose alerts like before...
Why can't the world all be
... Dear Microsoft,
Thank you for a completely worthless, but very large update not only did you succeed in bringing a great piece of hardware (MBP) to its knees (spinning ball and no ability to switch into other apps) you provided me with a no fixes for what most would consider the biggest problems to your new office suite. I still can not put 1 word document in 1 space and 1 in another space without them rejoining each other in the same space right after I put them there. Also thank you for NOT fixing the expose problem that puts word documents behind every other window and has no ability to bring it to the front. All I can say is thank god I got this POS for free from my school and didnt pay for it cause its crap.
I think your MBP has issues. I dont use spaces, but my machine runs fine and I have multiple word/excel docs open most of the time
Yep. only if you are using the standard edition(Not the default version that ships with Home edition)
Or at least bringing back the 'Print Preview' functionality in Excel which apparently is now better served by a tortuous trial and error method using Preview.http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.excel/browse_thread/thread/f19348565aff2c83
Same here. All my office apps starts within a matter of seconds. The only slow application I had was Aperture 2.0(trial edition), which got replaced by Expression Media...
Yeah, I noticed that after I posted. I just rebooted and now my startup times are:
Word 35 seconds
Excel 8 seconds
PowerPoint 7 seconds
Entourage 10 seconds
slow startup times with font issues
Does anyone know if this update helps resolve the problem with fonts being rescanned on each startup.
When using Suitcase to manage the fonts, changing even one installed font caused the apps to rescan the whole library causing slow startup times for all the apps.
I am hoping my users would be in a position to overcome this with the new update, but does it?
Does anyone know if this update helps resolve the problem with fonts being rescanned on each startup.
When using Suitcase to manage the fonts, changing even one installed font caused the apps to rescan the whole library causing slow startup times for all the apps.
I am hoping my users would be in a position to overcome this with the new update, but does it?
Win Office 2007 vs. Mac Office 2008
Does anyone run Office 2007 via Windows and Boot Camp (or Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion) AND Office 2008 for Mac? I will most likely be running Windows on my Mac, and I would prefer to use a native app but given the criticisms I've been reading regarding Office 08, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off using the Window's version.
Does anyone run Office 2007 via Windows and Boot Camp (or Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion) AND Office 2008 for Mac? I will most likely be running Windows on my Mac, and I would prefer to use a native app but given the criticisms I've been reading regarding Office 08, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off using the Window's version.
um.. why did it just install something related to Silverlight on my mac?
and how do I remove it?
You must have clicked on Ok to review their redesigned webpage (which contains silverlight). To remove it, I think you just delete the folder called silverlight.
The windows version is good. It is of course more powerful than the Mac Version. They are interoperable so what the heck, use both.
Entourage is still reporting 12.0.0 after applying the update.
Powerpoint, Excel,Word are all reporting 12.0.1
Powerpoint, Excel,Word are all reporting 12.0.1
